BENEFITS OF LIFTING WEIGHTS

When it comes to doctors orders, they are typically cardio based prescriptions urging patients to get 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous aerobic activity each week. That’s just 21 minutes of activity each day, and that’s great! We support that everyone should be moving each day whether you walk, run, crawl or sprint, we believe movement is health.

However, this neglects the importance of resistance training. Resistance training (RT) is moving external force for intentional muscle adaptations. We need to pick things up and put them down, just like our bodies are required to do every single day. Here’s the Jolt Fitness prescription: